Climate
Because of it's vast size, the climate of Latin America greatly varies, but a majority of Latin America is in the tropics. This causes it to have mostly a wet and humid climate or a dry climate. Elevation heavily influences the climate of the mountain areas of Latin America. The weather in Latin America is very extreme making some places incredibly humid and other places incredibly dry. The driest place on Earth is in Latin America, and so is the largest rain forest.
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Geographical Features
Latin America consists of three different physical regions, coastal plains, river basins, and mountains and elevated areas. Latin America has the world's largest river, which is the Amazon and it also has the world's driest desert, the Atacama Desert. It is also home to the longest (and second tallest) mountain range, the Andes.
In the mountain region there are hundreds of peaks, most of which are volcanic. There also are many plateaus, including highly elevated ones and lowly elevated glaciers. Within the river basin region there are three important river basins: the Amazon, Paraguay, and Orinoco. The Amazon flows through the Amazon rainforest, a rainforest that that makes up almost half of the worlds rain forest area. The Orinoco flows in an arc through grasslands and plains in a region known as the Llanos. The Paraguay river stretches to be almost 1,081,000 square miles and includes a series of waterfalls known as Iguazu Falls.